The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-07
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County superintendent Holme visit
ed the Pennsgrove public school on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Benz. Dilks, of Holly Beacl
City has been visiting relatives in
Pennsgrove her old home.
The oyster season is over. The rpi
cures will now feast on ice cream for
the four months without an +.
Charles W. Norton, keeper Of the
Egg Island light, was in town the first
of the week viewing old associations.
Capt. 5. 5. Godfry and j. Miller
Sickler, of Salem have leased the brick
yards at Pentonville, of Joshua Scott,
with all the appurtenances.
Frank b. Naylor the genial tiumaa
at the old stand, has putt new attrac-
tive sign which displays bis business
and the skill OF artist Cable handsome
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The steamer Clyde did not land her
passengers in Salem until midnight on
Friday oil las. week on account of get
ting aground before she reached the
wharf.
The ladies of st. Pauls church will
hold their crazy festival in Odd Fellows
Hall, Pennsgrove, ON Saturday May
21st. A planked shad supper will be-
served.
The steamer S. NJ. FELTON,, which
left Wilmington recently to run from
Cape Charles to Norfolk has been with
drawn from that line and returned to
Wilmington.
Cart. William Somers, of Pedrick-
town, is Captain of the steamer =. ~.
Mccall now while Capt. Samuel NJ.
Denny is running the shad line. E. +.
Bright is clerk.
The steamer Major Reybold, after
having a thorough oyer hauling and a
new copper bottom put on her, resumed
her trips between Salem and Philadel-
phia on Monday.
Mr. Joseph Curriden at the Cove
has had the looks of his house greatly
improved by the addition of a porch
trimmed with some of Charles L. Bar
ber's brackets of new design.
William A. Sack, ST., who has been
in Florida all winter fishing for stur-
geon arrived home Saturday evening
He has had "A profitable season this year
south. He will fish now in Delaware
bay.
Borden Danser, who has been with
his photograph gallery at many towns
in the lower part of the State was home
the fore part of the week. His gallery
is at Tuckaahoe where he reports trade
good.
The schooner J r. P. Moore arrlv-
ed at the Cove on Monday with 133,OO0
shingles and As, 900 feet of lumber from
Washington, N. G., for John Summer
i'll & Bro. 1t was unloaded at the
Cove.
Acton Post G.. A. r., of Pennsgrove,
have made arrangements to go to the
National Cemetery at Firms Point TO
celebrate Decoration Day on the steam
er Mccall, instead OF in wagons as first
intended.
The Convention of the Gloucester
county Woman's Christian Temperance
Unions was held on Friday at Pauls-
boro. Mrs. w. Margerum, of Penns-
grove, gave a Bible reading before the
Convention.
1t was reported in Mondays Phila.
Press and in he Wilmington morning
papers that French's hotel was burned.
Tie report was started in Wilmington
by some who probably did not know Of
any other place but the hotel.
Our former old aged resident Edward
Shoemaker who recently sold ont the
restaurant business at 502 King ST.
Wilmington to Alfred Springer, il is
said, has moved to the frontiers, OF
Wilmington and is o teaching school
Since the killing Of hawks for the
reward offered by the W. j. Game Pro-
tective Association meadow mice have
become very thick and destructive of
young grass in some sections SO that
some recommend that a reward be Civ
en- for meadow mice.
Capt. Thomas Naylor and his son
Charles who have been on the captains
schooner Rillie S. Derby for a trip, ar
rived home on Saturday evening from
New York, where the schooner arrived
on Wednesday Of last week with a load
of Humber from the Satilla.Riyer, Georg-
ia.
The annual session of the South Jer-
Ministerial Association of the Method
ist Protestant Church was concluded ia
the Fiist Church, Camden, ON We'd
nesday night OF last week with-a soc
ial gathering. The sessions during
the day were devoted to the reading OF
Church papers and routine business.
Officers were elected as f0llaws; Presi-
dent, Rev. Daniel 1haekara. Of Wood
bury; Vice President, l.. ID. Stnltz, OF
Glassboro; Secretary, Isaac Mcdowell
of Barnsboro; Treasurer, J. W. Grant,
OF Pennsgrove.